Ian McKellen on internalised homophobia: ‘The cruellest directors I’ve worked with were gay – I therefore forgave them’

“I needn’t name them” says McKellen of the directors in question (Images: Attitude/BK Studios)

Sir Ian McKellen has shared that the “most cruel” directors he’s ever worked with were gay – and that, because they may have been suffering from internalised homophobia, he “forgave them.”

The star shared his experience of ‘mean gays’ in an exclusive interview with Attitude about his new movie The Critic, in which he plays a 1930s theatre critic with an acid-tongue.

It also stars Gemma Arterton as stage actress Nina, who McKellen’s character Jimmy, a closeted gay man, eviscerates with his pen, before befriending and manipulating her to further his own career.

“I needn’t name them” – Sir Ian McKellen on “cruel” directors

“I think the most cruel directors I’ve ever worked with

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